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This week, The Memory Train goes to Germany and Adolph Hitler's historical experience with Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African-Americans in the Nazi era. So much of our history is lost to us because we usually don't write the history books, don't film the documentaries, or don't pass the information down from generation to generation.
Hundreds of the African Rhineland-based soldiers intermarried with German women and raised their children as Black Germans. In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote about his plans for these "Rhineland bastards."In every story of Black oppression, no matter how we were enslaved, shackled and beaten, we always found ways to survive and rescue others. This was proven by Johnny Voste, a Belgian resistance fighter who was arrested in 1942 for alleged sabotage and then shipped to Dachau. One of his jobs was stacking vitamin crates where he would distribute hundreds of vitamins to camp detainees, which saved the lives of many who were weak and starving. His motto was, "No, you can't have my life, I will fight for it."Some Black American soldiers, captured and held as prisoners of war, recalled being starved and forced into dangerous labor (violating the Geneva Convention).See the full content of this document
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Hitler's Black Victims
This week, The Memory Train goes to Germany and Adolph Hitler's historical experience with Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans and African-Americans in the Nazi era. So much of our history is lost to us because we usually don't write the hi...
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